Except the message is made redundant by prior art.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Airlines_Flight_434

Everyone seems to have forgotten about this one, probably because the plane
didn't crash, and only one death - the bloke was in the seat the bomb had
been hidden beneath.

In that case the explosive was pre-mixed (and apparent quite unstable) and
hidden in another bottle.  It's not a huge problem to hide one liquid inside
a bottle of another, especially shampoo (coloured bottles) or Gatorade or
Coke (coloured liquid).

Fill a condom with the explosive (or ingredient) and drop it in.  Won't get
spotted in a casual inspection.  X-ray won't spot it.  Hair gel or hand
creme sets off the sniffers anyway, so hide it in there.  (Failed a bomb
test a while back - got asked if I handled either of these recently.)

Tony

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu 
> [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of William Couture
> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 11:46 PM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: [OT]: [IP] On the implausibility of the explosives plot.
> 
> >From another list I'm on, something to think about...
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 
> >From the Interesting People list...
> 
> [For IP.]
> 
> First, a note of introduction. Until recently, I was a 
> computer security guy, and as with many in my profession, the 
> application of computer security analysis to non-computer 
> security problems was increasingly interesting to me. Now, 
> for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, I'm 
> back at school, studying chemistry, and I'm spending this 
> summer in a lab doing organic synthesis work. Strangely, 
> today I find my interests colliding.
> 
> So, I'm doing a bunch of reading, and I find the claimed 
> method the "highly sophisticated" attackers came up with for 
> bringing down airliners kind of implausible. I wonder if it 
> could ever work in reality.
> 
> A disclaimer, I'm working entirely off of news reported by 
> people who don't know the difference between soft drinks and 

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